Marie Bissell

Marie Bissell studies how listeners perceive and process regional dialects of English, focusing on how exposure to and familiarity with different dialects affects speech perception, sound classification, and word recognition. Their work combines acoustic analysis of vowel and consonant variation (such as vowel shifts and allophone patterns) in specific U.S. communities with perceptual experiments using tools like eye-tracking and listener rating tasks. This research sits at the intersection of sociolinguistics (language variation tied to social groups and regions) and phonetics/psycholinguistics (how speech sounds are produced and perceived).

Publication output has grown from occasional single papers in the late 2010s to a steadier pace of 2-4 publications per year since 2022, suggesting increasing research activity.

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